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1900ca - USA: Early America - Excerpts from The Town Up & Down; Road To Happiness; Oil; Little Bo Peep

Reel Number: 220658-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1900s,1910s,1920s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 02:08:16

TC Ends: 02:20:06

Duration: 00:11:50

1900ca - USA: Early America - Oil Boom; Textile Industry; Pan Trees and valley - settlers w/ wagon & horses seen through trees moving along country road. MS Man on horseback smiling at camera. Top shot many wagons gathered on muddy street (Excerpt from The Town of Up and Down). 02:09:24 Slug. 02:09:29 School house in open country; children walking to school down muddy road, 02:10:02 CU boys boots in mud; MCU Kids scraping mud off boots before entering one room school. 02:10:27 Children of all ages sitting at desks, some appear almost adult. Teacher pins up notice about Firestone University Scholarship. 02:11:18 Slug. 02:11:24 Oil derricks. Horse drawn carts at side of railroad as steam train of tank cars backs in. Small town - Black Cat Cafe. Men at work on oil derrick. Oil workers gambling. Oil storage tanks; refinery. Man using electronic? probe in ground, searching for oil. Oil town - two cars - many horses and carts. Train into station, young men hanging around. 02:13:30 Oil storage tanks. More modern? Street scenes, men sitting at roadside. Men outside Western Union office - sign re oil leases. More street scenes, men outside barbers. Family pose for camera. Men working on oil rig. 02:15:36 Slug. 02:15:38 Man feeding wool into carding machine. Combing cylinders. Machinery. Spools of various Coloured materials blended. 02:17:03 Huge looms. CUs. 02:17:33 Girl winding wool onto bobbins for knitting machine. Machine knits fabric into long tubes for underwear. Machine knits cuffs. Scouring fabric. 02:18:32 Cutter using circular knife to cut many layers at the same time. Various processes. 02:19:01 Slug. 02:19:03 Woman at Singer sewing machine in factory making button holes, pressing underwear. Petroleum Industry; 1910s; Rural Americana; Petroleum; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.

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